Deadline  (1982 - Commodore - Infocom)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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You have 12 hours to solve the murder of Mr. Marshall Robner. If it was a murder... Mr Robner was found locked in his library, dead -- from a lethal dosage of anti-depressants. Friends and family are calling this a suicide of depressed wealthy industrialist. As Chief of Detectives, you find something just doesn't smell right about this case. You go out on a quest to find a suspect, his motive, method, and opportunity.

Difficulty Level: Expert

(From The New Zork Times Vol.3 No.2 Spring 1984)
Some statistics about Deadline:

Apparent number of rooms (those seen by the player): 49 

Number of rooms: 51 (for various arcane programming reasons, some rooms are inaccessible to the player) 

Number of different ways to die: 2 

Number of words in vocabulary: 656 

Number of takeable objects: 37
